(succeeded Jon Carson when he
moved over to do voter contact for Feb. 5 states) With the
campaign from the start; initially Illinois
political director and national labor outreach. Worked for the Strategy Group (Pete Giangreco). Served as political
director at Obama's Hopefund. Deputy campaign manager on Obama's
2004 U.S. Senate campaign.
Political director on former Assemblyman Nate Umberg's 2002 campaign
for California State Insurance Commissioner.

Deputy Director

Kevin Woods

Camp Obama (a
4-day training/campaigning
program in Chicago)

Jocelyn Woodards

Chicago political
strategist/community
organizer. Job developer at South Suburban College. Field
desk
(AR, LA, VA) at the DNC in Fall 2004. Served briefly as national
field director on Carol Moseley Braun's presidential campaign,
March-May
2003. In 2000 was deputy director of the Florida Democratic
Coordinated
Campaign. Deputy director of the Office of Voter Participation at
the DNC, 1995-97.Graduate of the University of
Illinois at Chicago, 1985.

Downstate Director

Anita Decker

Came to the campaign from
Obama's Senate office where she served as downstate director from Oct.
2006-March 2007. Downstate
field director on Rod
Blagojevich's campaign for governor in 2002.Graduate of University of
Arizona, 2000. Native of
Kenilworth, IL. (Note: "downstate" is the 92 counties outside of Chicago).

former...through late summer/early fall-moved over to voter contact

State Director

Jon Carson

Managed Tammy Duckworth's
2006
general election campaign in Illinois' 6th CD. Served in the
Peace
Corps. Worked for South Carolina Democrats in the 2002 cycle,
helping
to target African-American voters. Director of the Wisconsin
Senate
Democratic Caucus from Feb. to Aug. 2001. A regional field
organizer
on Al Gore's 2000 Iowa caucus campaign. Worked on Russ Feingold's
1998 U.S. Senate campaign. Graduate of the University of
Wisconsin-Platteville
with a degree in civil engineering. From La Crosse, WI.

Note:An April 11, 2007 entry
by freedom4u_n_me on the Illinoisians for Obama community blog mentions
a training Anita Decker conducted on the Iowa Sister City Program...

"The campaign will be
helping
prepare us for this! We will travel to Iowa 3 times;

1st-between June 9th
and
Labor Day

2nd-between Labor Day
and
Christmas

3rd-The final weekend
before
the Caucus."

See also: Lynn
Sweet.
"Obama's Illinois operation. Campaign to launch "'Camp Obama'" Chicago
Sun-Times. May 3, 2007. and John McCormick article in the Chicago
Tribune on July 17, 2007